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I Dare You Part Two

"Why don't we play a game?" to his surprise, everybody agreed. "A little perky, aren't we?" then they moved to the living room and he took a bottle with him. Sakuno took the empty plates to the kitchen and were washing them as the boys had their fun.

"What are we going to play, Niou-senpai?" Kirihara was curious and he knew that his Niou-senpai will never come up with something boring. Boring isn't in Niou's vocabulary.

"We're going to play…" he paused and he saw the faces of excitement in everyone. "Dare or Dare." Then he explained the rules and the rules were: To whomever the neck of the bottle points to, has to follow somebody's dare. That somebody is the one who has been dared before the one who is being dared at the given time and that there was no choice between Truth and Dare. He spun the bottle and it landed on Yukimura.

"Well, I'm ready for your dares." He smiled and his smile terrified everybody that no one dared to dare him. "What's my dare?" no response.

"Ooookay…" Niou said and decided for everybody. "Why don't you dare the next one to whom the bottle will point to?" Niou saw it fit but Yukimura was disappointed.

"I wanted to be dared." He said as he spun the bottle and the game resumed.

Everybody was afraid to dare him, especially that Sanada's around. They didn't want to be shred to strips.

The boys were having fun and their laughter can be heard in the kitchen. Sakuno has finished washing the dishes and put them away. She wasn't aware what was coming her way.

The others had their turn in being dared and everybody was laughing at Jackal who was flapping his arms like a bird and hopping on one foot with a tie tied around his head. Marui made him stop and Jackal went back to his place and spun the bottle. Unfortunately, it landed on Yukimura.

Jackal felt as if somebody is watching him carefully and if he said something wrong he's as good as dead. Everyone was nervous, Niou to be specific, was shaking on his knees. It was his idea to play Dare or Dare anyway.

Jackal gulped and meekly said, "Drink a glass of that soda." He pointed to the 'safe' soda on the table. Yukimura then felt disappointed again. 'This is the first time I actually felt afraid.' Jackal thought as his buchou went to get his drink and finished it.

Yukimura returned and Jackal sighed in relief. He then spun the bottle. They were silent as they watched the bottle slowly stop at its target. They looked up and saw Kirihara who's happily gulping down the marvelous juice care of Niou.

"Huh? Whu iz it?" he asked and he's drunk now. Poor Akaya, he'll be suffering in the hands of hang over by tomorrow.

Yukimura smiled and Renji recognized his buchou's smile being mischievous and evil. "Come over here, Aka-chan." He ordered and the other followed. Kirihara closed in on him and he whispered something to his ear. If it wasn't for the flush on his face made by the drunkenness, his senpai-tachi could have jeered about him blushing and all.

Kirihara walked off to the kitchen, his legs all wobbly from the alcohol. The others were curious and Yagyu asked Yukimura what he said to Kirihara.

"Go and tell Sakuno that you really like her at the same time hug her close to you." Everyone wanted to follow Kirihara but Yukimura shook his head and said, "Let him be, we'll know the results later on." He smiled at his friends and they waited.

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Before Kirihara stepped into the kitchen, he suddenly got a grip on his thoughts. Adrenaline started to course down his veins, cancelling the effects of the alcohol. 'What the!?' he thought. His mind suddenly became clear; he felt his heart thumping hard in his chest. He backed away a little and Sakuno hasn't noticed him yet.

'What am I supposed to do? I'm not prepared for this!' he thought. The dare was sudden and he was afraid that he will be rejected. 'Wait, I'm drunk right?' he asked himself and he nodded. 'Sakuno won't notice if I'm serious or not, and even if I am she'll think I'm just kidding. Yeah, that's right.' He rejoiced at his thoughts. He never knew he was quite intelligible.

"Okay, here I go." It took him a lot of time to encourage himself to get it over with. And everyone in the living room was concerned.

"What if he has done something to Sakuno?" Jackal paced to and fro. He was worried about his 'baby sister.'

"He is drunk to boot." They found out what Niou had done to the juice but it was too late. Now he is running around the garden to finish his 50 laps.

"What if he hurts Sakuno?" Jackal was uneasy then Marui tugged his pants and told him to take it easy and sit down. But inside Marui's head, he was worried as well. But he knew in his self that Akaya wouldn't do that. So he sat down, waiting.

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"Sakuno," Kirihara called which caught her attention. She turned around and saw Kirhara standing near the counter. She washed off the soap suds and dried her hands. She wore an apron that made her look motherly.

'She still looks cute in an apron.' He thought. He didn't push the thought away; there were only two of them in the kitchen and nobody else. He closed the distance between the two of them. Sakuno looked up at him; she feels so comfortable around him more than anybody else in the team probably because they had already met before.

"What is it, Akaya-kun?" she asked teasingly. Niou told her to call Kirihara by his first name. She had her hands behind her back. She didn't notice the blush on Kirihara's face when she called him by his first name.

Kirihara scratched his head, he couldn't say a word. He inhaled and to Sakuno's surprise, his arms locked themselves around her. "Kirihara-senpai!" She felt her hands on his chest. She looked up only to meet emerald eyes gazing into her chocolate ones.

He buried his face into her hair which weren't braided. Then he spoke clearly as he can, "I really like you." She closed her eyes and stayed in his arms for a little while, when her senpai pulled back and turned away.

"I finished the dare. See ya' later." The slur in his speech can be heard.

"S-Senpai?" Sakuno felt a sharp pain in her chest. She did not want to accept it, but she wanted it to be real; she thought it was, but it was another of fate's pranks. She smiled but inside, she wanted to cry. 'You're just venting your emotions on him; you're just lost in your past love.' She thought.

"What? You want to hear something else?" Kirihara said, annoyed at Sakuno. 'Just let it pass as if it didn't happen!' he thought. He didn't want to accept the truth as well- that he was in love.

"About the bento…" she said meekly, trying to change her thoughts "Was it delicious? I mean the food." She bowed a little.

"It stuffed me, alright." He said as he turned around to see Sakuno in her usual stance- bowing down and playing with the hem of something. "It was delicious." He finally said.

"I see. I always get a comment of 'so-so' about my cooking." She remembered Ryoma when he eats food she made. She smiled at Kirihara and said, "Thank you Kirihara-senpai," she paused, "for everything." Then she turned to the dishes, but Kirihara yanked her wrist and hugged her again. She closed her eyes as she let her head rest on his chest. She could hear his heart beating furiously.

"When I hugged you a while ago, it's as if you didn't want to let go." He sought for the right words. Sakuno did not move. "It's as if you immersed yourself in the moment of the act." He felt Sakuno's arms wrap around his waist which caused him to blush heatedly.

"You've never been hugged like this, have you?" Kirihara hit the spot and she looked up at him. He slowly closed in. Sakuno wanted to back away, but Kirihara held her arms.

His lips touched her forehead, a very sweet way to stun her. "That brat made you cry over and over," he paused "I'll beat the crap out of him when I see him." He said determinedly. He let go of his firm but gentle grip on Sakuno's arms and walked away but before he left he said, "Your clothes hide your figure." He spoke without turning his head and continued to the living room.

Sakuno blushed. She held her body as the feeling of her senpai's body lingered on her skin.

"Man, I sounded like a pervert." Kirihara said as he went back to his senpai-tachi who were all looking worried.

They looked at him which was unnerving. "What?" Yagyu stood up and approached him.

"You're not wearing a shirt." Yagyu said and Kirihara looked at himself and found that he wasn't wearing a shirt.

'What the!?' the effect of the adrenaline wore off and the alcohol slowly crept to his senses again. 'I hugged her without a shirt!?' he thought.

Then everybody remembered what they were being worried about. Jackal started, "What did you do to her!?'

"I just did my dare, what's wrong with that?" he said slurred.

Nobody believed him so they all went into the kitchen to see a dazed Sakuno. Jackal shook her and asked, "Did he do something, uh, violating?" Sakuno shook her head. She was still in shock.

"Then what did he do?" Niou was eager to know if their brattling has become a man.

"He hugged me."

"And then?"

"S-Said… s-something." She blushed. Yukimura nodded, it signified that Kirihara did the dare. But Niou was insistent.

"What else?" his face was so close to Sakuno, that Sakuno couldn't hide by bowing.

"Anou… He kissed me… here." She touched her forehead and blushed like a tomato. Marui got serious and Niou then burst into laughter. "What's w-wrong, Niou-senpai?" Sakuno asked.

"Ha! He's still a kid!" Niou was still laughing. Marui went back to the living room where Kirihara was.

"What is it senpai?" he asked without checking who it was, there was no response. He turned his head to look at who it was and it was Marui. Kirihara just looked at him, then the other spoke.

"I thought you were going to back out." He said; his glare stuck on its target resolutely.

"I don't give up that easily senpai." He then spun the bottle which stopped at Marui. He looked at the bottle then to Marui.

"Eh? Seems like I have to give you the dare." He said, not being defeated in the glaring game.

"Bring it on!" Marui taunted.

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